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Missing catfish

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Ok, my 2 S.A. Bumblebee catfish are MIA. I saw one about 2 or 3 days ago, but nothing since. I've done a couple of water changes without seeing both of them swimming around. And with this morning's change out I came across a fish bone, or maybe it was one their 'whiskers'.

Can they die that quickly without a trace? or are they that good at hiding?

if you found a fish bone and there's no trace of them, it's very likely they got devoured after dying. goldfish eat like champs (hence their messy reputation and their rep for...excrement haha). they also scavenge and will eat carrion that is even several days old. when a fish dies, it bloats, and the skin quickly begins to decompose...meaning that breakdown makes it very easy for scavenging, always "hungry" fish to get deep inside the body and take out large chunks, meaning it gets eaten fairly quickly...

i hope you find them but if you want some "closure", do a gravel vac in a day or two and search for fish bones that get sucked up that either were left behind or got eaten (fish bones are very soft and ingestible by fish large enough to do so)